Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

It is safer and wiser to cure unhealthy rivalry than to suppress it.