Dance like nobody's looking.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.