Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?

When we become negative and ungrateful, it is important to remember... We have met the enemy; and he is us.

Don't believe something just because you didn't read it in the papers. Wait until you haven't seen it on television.

Man tries to swallow meaning whole as a dog would eat his dinner.

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't no-hows permanent.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.