It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

Spring is beautiful, and smells sweet. Spring is when you shake the curtains, and pound on the rugs, and take off your long underwear, and wash in all the corners.

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

we can't know a road until we travel it. Hearing about it is not enough. We are obliged to travel over it.

We do not earn or deserve the love of God; we already have it.

Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

People create social conditions and people can change them.

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.