Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

So little time and so little to do.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.