Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.

The is a way to attract and there's another way to honour to keep. Learn both

My hands are dying.

What men want is not knowledge but certainty.

If New York is the Big Apple, tonight Hollywood is the Big Nipple.

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

The nice thing about England is that they actually speak English.

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.