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.

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

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

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

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.