I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.