No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.

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

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

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.