Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -Harry S Truman.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 2.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Ideas cross mountains, borders, and seas. They go anywhere a man can go...

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!

Show me a man with both feet on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't put on his pants.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.