"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks"
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living"
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men"
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'"
"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left"
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am"
"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end"
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts"
"When in doubt, do it"
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing"
"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad"
"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding"
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"
"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them"
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor"
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing"
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking"
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel"
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor"
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old"
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences"
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving"
"The Amen of nature is always a flower"
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"
