Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.
One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.
I am not an American. I am the American.
School gets in the way of my learning.
They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.