It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.