Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; the hardest victory is the victory over self.
I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married.
For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday, and he still forgot to bring me something.
I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time, at least.
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
These blessed candles of the night.