Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all...

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your...

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of...

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really...

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.