The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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.

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance.

It isn't you, ' he says, as though you're to be comforted by the irrelevant role you play in your own life.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

Rich means you have to stay there to maintain it.

I love you more than anything in the world combined.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.