"The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it."

“The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.”

“Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”

Source : Horace Greeley (1999). “An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859”, p.5, U of Nebraska Press

“It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.”

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.”

“On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?”

“The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.”

“plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.”

“I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.”