Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die.
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
When humor go's, there go's civilization.
What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world. . . . Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.