Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Do not allow the negative experiences of your past to block your future blessings

Don't you be thinking, ' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

As Americans, we do love punishment.