"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do."

"It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help."

"Santa Claus has the right idea; visit people once a year."

"Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record."

"The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves."

"I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark."

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us."

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

"MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal."