If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

You ask men in office to be honest; I ask them to serve the public.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I've found increasingly less effectiveness with the man-on-the street type of stuff that was very standard fare for years. It can still be effective, but it's got to be done well.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.