“Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.”

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”