I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours.

My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God

What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure.

If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.

The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.