Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

Honor your father and mother even as you honor God for all three were partners in your creation.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.

You must emulate the truth you exhort.

All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?