Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Land of religions, cradle of human race, birthplace of human speech, grandmother of legend, great grandmother of tradition. The land that all men desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined. On India.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite -- but they all worship money.

A classic is something that everybody praises and nobody has read.

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

Never let your schoolin' interfere with your education.

If you would have your fiction live forever, you must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach; but you must *covertly* preach and *covertly* teach.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry out is not a patriot but a traitor.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

It does look as if Massachusetts were in a fair way to embarrass me with kindnesses this year. In the first place, a Massachusetts judge has just decided in open court that a Boston publisher may sell, not only his own property in a free and unfettered way, but also may as freely sell property which does not belong to him but to me; property which he has not bought and which I have not sold. Under this ruling I am now advertising that judge's homestead for sale, and, if I make as good a sum out of it as I expect, I shall go on and sell out the rest of his property.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.