There are men who are happy without knowing it.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

Prosperity makes few friends.

Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

In her attempt to make me a good man, I made her a bad woman.

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction.

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.

The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.

I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.