You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.