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"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on."
"Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal."
"Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination."
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
"Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments."
"Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake."
"As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell."
"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."
"The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid."
"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
"The cheerful loser is the winner."
"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
"I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts."
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same."
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
"Happiness is a habit—cultivate it."
"God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."