"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

"Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it."

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all."

"I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts."

"True life lies in laughter, love and work."

"Victory - a matter of staying power."

"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

"I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness."

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."

"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."

"If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."

"A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself."

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

"Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used."

"A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them."

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

"Charity begins at home and usually stays there."

"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do."

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

"Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same."

"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."

"Fear clogs faith liberates."

"I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid."

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."

"The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an eternity in an hour."

"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."

"Art is not a thing, it is a way."

"The past is one evil less and one memory more."

"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

"I do not read a book, I hold a conversation with the author."

"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

"Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think."

"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."

"Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live."

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."

"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."

"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence."

"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."

"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace."

"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."

"We are punished by our sins, not for them."

"The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."

"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."

"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself."

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."