To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.