Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate indecision!

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.