What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

The child must teach the man.

I've never done theater professionally. But I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, so I did some theater there.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.