One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.