You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.