There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Trees are the soul collectors come to life.

Tomorrow is promised to no one so live your life fully everyday.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince... some start there.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

I don't know anything and neither do you.

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.