Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

The day of individual happiness has passed

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.