You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Humility is attentive patience.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.