Only the insane take themselves seriously..

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity..

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving..

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise..

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls..

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt..

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul..

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having di….

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions..

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success..

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another..

Most women are not as young as they are painted..

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk..

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter..

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men..

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments..

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs..

I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay..

Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short..

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans..