Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.