I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.