When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

Our only fate is to lie in the beds that we make.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

I can see close up and my husband can see far away, so we're covered. He tells me who's in the movie and I tell him what's in his sandwich. Together we're human bifocals.

My dad is my hitting coach. When I need help, I go to him.