A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.