Half this game is ninety percent mental.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

I think we must.. quote whenver we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Revenge is a dish that tastes better cold.

The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees. Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.