Action is character.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.