It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Only the living souls can praise the living God.

If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

Twenty generations ago - around the year 1390 - you had 1 048 576 ancestors. In the 21st generation of your family that number will double again.

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

It was emotional when Chrysler sold out to the Germans.

Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.