What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit