Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
People make their own luck.
Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.
In the game of life nothing is less important than the score at half time.
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
This struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.
It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
To a man with an empty stomach, food is god.
He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering that it was an acquired one.
There is no data on the future.