"Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!"

"People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold."

"Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do."

"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."

"The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

"When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day."

"Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out."

"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."

"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."

"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous."