There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

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.