[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.
I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.
It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.
Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.