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.

Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

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

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.