This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

I believe in my writing.

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

Too much thinking is a bad thing sometimes.