Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.

Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

We don't feel constrained by what we did in the past.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.