Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

Twas the nizzle before chrismizzle and all through the hizzle.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

What don’t I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain’t nobody here saying, ‘You’d better learn this.’ But I still think I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

I don’t mind that I’m fat. You still get the same money.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

It is possible to be free and loving no matter what your circumstances.

If you don’t get out there and try to solve your own problems, it’s never going to change.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

I will build a motor car for the great multitude – constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. So low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one-and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.

When one gets beaten by somebody better, one has to know how to lose with humility. Sure, I could have served better. Sure, I could have hit my forehand harder. But the truth was this was like an avalanche, and there was no way to stop it.

Due diligence equals increasing your financial IQ daily.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don’t have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.

Thats the worst thing, I dont really care if people say I’m a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he’s ugly thats just like “oh.. really?

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

It’s easy to say no! when there’s a deeper yes! burning inside.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.