Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

When you can maintain continual awareness of where you are and hold onto the vision of where you want to go, you transform your life from wandering to wonder.

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.