Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair.

It is always man's ideas which drive his actions. This has, at times, resulted in great evil; but as we look around us, we cannot doubt that it has resulted in greater good.

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

We no longer produce laborers, we would rather pray to God to send laborers to come and build our cities

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment. 'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he glared at them. 'Oh, shut up,' he said.

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

I like to sing when I have works to do - it does so help.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.