“One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.”

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

U.S.-China relations doesn’t need another lawyer.

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden.

In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.

When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit.

It’s OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can’t kiss another person because he’s a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I’m from Dallas, Texas.

As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I’ve got one, it’s like, ‘Now what?’ Let’s go get another one!

When one door opens, so does another one.

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.