The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Every team that I've played on, I've either been the captain or co-captain.
Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home.
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.