As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

I always advise people never to give advice.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

Entrepreneurs utilize even a negative change positively.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

I quite like being who I am.

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

Can you picture my prophecy?

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.