Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

The sh*t's gonna splatter, start buggin, yo..."Mencheres to Cat

The more I pray, the more I feel God's comfort.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

A man who has to be convinced to act before he acts is not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

The public's not stupid.

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.

Smell the sea and feel the sky.