The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

I guess a man's best friend is his mother.

everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.

I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Never give in and never give up.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.