When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Certain signs precede certain events.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Time is the best killer.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.