A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Once you label me you negate me.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

A person preaches well that lives well.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.