Whenever I'm with my [teenager], I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
Man's the bad child of the universe.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
I've got nothing against girls in tight sweaters - darn it!
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Fake feeling good. ... You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not, eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot.
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.