Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

It's always good to be underestimated.

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

If there's one thing the American people aren't lacking, it is courage.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.