“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he’s crooked.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of 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.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Being a star just means that you just find your own special place, and that you shine where you are.

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.

Even in our deepest struggles, love, faith and beauty find a way. ⁣

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends.

A good job isn’t something you go out and find, it’s something you discover while you’re working.

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there’s a gas bill tied to it.