America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

So Rise now to the Occasion that is Life

Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

When the sun is shining, the right song is on, and I'm with people I love.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.