People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Property is organized robbery.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.