“If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.”

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’

Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

Delight in the little things.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

Nothing happens until somebody sells something!

I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

My commitment is to produce at the cheapest price and the best quality.

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.