“Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.”

Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Americans love to read about violence.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother only sees it’s possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil – and she’s entirely right about that!

Gossip’s a nasty thing, but it’s sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

To live and die amongst foreigners may seem less absurd than to live persecuted or tortured by one’s fellow countrymen….

I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don’t remember what I said last night.

There are worse things than a lie… I have found… that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That’s my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.

The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point?but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.