"To live is well, but to live well is better"

"Do not spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by."

"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out."

"A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it."

"A kind word is like a spring day."

"It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats."

"Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person."

"[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

"I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it."

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them"