My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.