“Every man has a sane spot somewhere.”

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I`m focusing on are my own policy proposals.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.

All human life at every stage of its development is worthy of protection.

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.

I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.