Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands-hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

Im going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I havent seen. Ive spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.