It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.