Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink it.

Respect is both earned and lost.

When it comes to competing with the best and brightest in whatever your talents or educational skills are, you have to have the confidence within yourself that you are able to achieve.

I GOT TIGAR BLOOD

People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

...telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button.