Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested.