The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

We can't escape the need to loveNorCan we resist the longing to be loved

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.

it’s being branded a failure that causes the most pain

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

I'm not afraid of death at all.