The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Your future will be determined not by your education or bank account, but by your optimism and attitude.

As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives them their souls.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

A man who knows all goods and all truths, as many as can be known, but does not shun evils, knows nothing.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

It was very necessary I think 'cause you know, when the band's over, or at least in our heads, for a year it makes you really realize how lucky you are to be doing this and why piss in the well?

I've never gotten in too much trouble with alcohol. I've never had a drinking problem, really.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fear.