"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."

"Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'"

"Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand."

"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject."

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so."

"Gifts allow us to demonstrate exactly how little we know about a person. And nothing pisses a person off more than being shoved into the wrong pigeonhole."

"Change is good, but dollars are better."

"Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have."

"Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide."

"One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear."

"Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart."