The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

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.

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

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.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Your inside person doesn’t age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you’ve ever been.

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.

Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

Life's experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!

Also pay attention if a tree or whatnot says something about two bulls.

Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.