To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Here's to the confusion of our enemies!

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

It was great fun. We had gone on tour in between the sessions and reconnected with the audience and got a lot of energy back from them, a lot of positive energy.

Here lies Walter Winchell in the dirt he loved so well.