“Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an’ it keeps on laughin’.”

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?

Knowin’ all about baseball is just about as profitable as bein’ a good whittler.

It isn’t enough for you to love money – it’s also necessary that money should love you.

Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Never tell the box-office man that you can’t hear well or he will sell you a seat where you can’t see either.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Many a family tree needs trimming

Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.

Nobuddy ever listened t’ reason on a empty stomach.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

When a woman says, ‘I don’t wish to mention any names’, it means it ain’t necessary to mention any names.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images

You get born and you try this and you don’t know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people.

In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it’s vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.

I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.

The young people I meet want more freedom – to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.