There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

We are living in a topsy-turvy world, where all is confusion. But you may be sure that it is confusion with a plan—Satan’s plan!

You always were a strange child, Alexander, " he said, "but vampires? I can't believe it."I shrugged."Well, now you know where I get my biting sense of humor, " I said weakly.

President Obama wants to raise taxes on the country's richest people. And you thought Donald Trump hated him before.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

I definitely enjoy getting to know people I find inspiring.