I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows a detective story instead.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Don’t be satisfied with a particular sphere of influence only

Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

If you see crazy coming, cross the street!

Fitness is a journey, not a destination; you must continue for the rest of your life.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some