It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Thought is free.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.