The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Do your best when no one is looking.

I'm looking California, And feeling Minnesota...

I woke up and one of us was crying.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

The problem was , you never heard anyone say,"wow, check out the brain on that babe.

There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.