"People learn more from observation that they..." - Quote by Will Rogers

“Well, the disarmament conference is off to a flying start. There is nothing to prevent their succeeding now but human nature.”

“The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.”

“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”

“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”

“Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.”

“All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.”

“She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.”

“Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.”

“To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.”