If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.