A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

Priapism is what happens when someone gets strangulated to the point of hypoxia.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.