The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…

No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

If you can come to my fight, you can come in my arms.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'