“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.