The depositary of power is always unpopular.

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.

If a book falls in the woods and nobody read it, was it ever written?

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

There is no unconditional love in the universe.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.