I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.