No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.