Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

The only thing keeping you from living the life you want, is allowing your weaknesses to hold you back. So don't let anything hold you back from achieving your goals".

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

People may think I'm wildly obnoxious.

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.