"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]"

"Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."

"Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 34 percent guaranteed.)"

"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."

"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

"I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me."

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."

"I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me."

"In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, ``Sorry, we're open.''"