The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

They said love made you strong, but in Louise's opinion it made you weak. It corkscrewed into your heart and you couldn't get it out again, not without ripping your heart to pieces.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.