An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

[History is] petrified imagination.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.

...But we also believe that part of our mission in life is to find our bliss and follow it. Life is a precious and delicate gift. How much of that gift do we squander out of fear?

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

If you chose to listen within you will get some really helpful information. You really do know the answer. Intuition is always at the ready.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

The most vital aspect of winning is mental attitude.