If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

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

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

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.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Life in America shows that liberty, paired with law, is not to be feared.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.