Flint must be an extremely wealthy town I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.

Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.

Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.

much of gardening is a struggle against the fecundity of Nature.

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington.