what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.