Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

​Blind faith may be healthy for the individual mind, but it is not religion.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.