Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.

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.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

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.

Never risk in the dark to search the light. Conversely, be light and shine in the darkness as a moon.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.