“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.”

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love…I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Success consists in the climb.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked.

Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

It’s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Gratitude is a fool’s word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man.

Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we’re someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.

The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

The man who enters his wife’s dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.

Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.