Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.
There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Don't dream your life, but live your dream
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.