As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.

I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.