Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.