We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

It only seems as if you're doing something when you worry.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Oh its delightful to have ambitions. Im so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them thats the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Its delightful when your imaginations come true isnt it

A favor is never so long lived as a grudge.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.

The only true animal is a cat, and the only true cat is a gray cat.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

No use in taking a cat's opinion of a dog.

All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness.

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

You have to be a star to be in this business.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.