"He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze."

"Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles."

"If Jerry Brown is the answer, it must be a very peculiar question."

"Look whoa€?s standing if you please, a€?though you tried to bring me to my knees."

"How can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?"

"Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses."

"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."

"To fail to plan is to plan to fail."

"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."

"Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own."

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."