Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Dance like nobody's looking.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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