Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.