Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.