Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree

Tell you what I like the best - 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strawberries melts On the vine, - some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothin' else!

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.

Think of him still as the same, I say, He is not dead, he is just - away.

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Are you seeking to be offended?

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Great talkers, little doers.

Was life like that? You could look ahead to the future or back to the past, but the present moved too quickly to absorb.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I've got The Father on my side, Jesus Christ, The Holy Spirit and 2/3 of the angels. What do you think I'm going to do? Sit down and cry?

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.