Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Sometimes, sleepers turn up as common people who do everyday things, and create a new destiny for themselves when nobody’s watching.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Nowhere have I ever heard of Satan taking the form of an avuncular hippie. No doubt he could. It just seems inefficient.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise.