What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.