Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.

You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but that we become whom we eat.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Barkis is willin'!

A high hope for a low heaven. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.