Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Imagine yourself in a parallel universe. Imagined? Now either attain or forget it.

I used her and she used me, but neither one cared, we were getting our share.

Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

Goodness transcends badness.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

I didn't even know how to shave at 15.

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!