As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.

You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

Have you ever noticed the more you try not to think, the more elaborate your thinking episodes get?

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.