Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.

To be able to see one’s own faults

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

The gambling supply house catalog is distinctly not the safest place to learn about cheating devices, beware of catalog men.

At night I can write for hours.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.