Ring Lardner

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

History doesn’t mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.

When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.

I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I think it’s the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.

Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.