There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.