To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

I may be crazy but it keeps me from going insane.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.