No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

May the Heavens be open to your prayers.

When angry, count to Zen.

A smile is a humble hidden treasure everyman has been endowed with that does not reveal itself until it is called for.

I really am a mystic. I don't know where I got it from.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

I think people should look cute all the time.