Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.