Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.