A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

I don't plan to attend the inauguration [Donald Trump].

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

America was built on the can-do spirit and will continue to thrive on the can-do spirit.