I will weep no more for the lost, asleep in their water graves.
Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.
Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.
Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.
They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.
It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading.