Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

It is the strength of any emotion, not necessarily its pleasantness, that makes a place important.

Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.

I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls.

For lack of love one does a million other things.

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.

God puts mentors in your path. They may not look like you, sound like you, or be what you expect. But they always know more that you.

I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back.