Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
My friends are my estate.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.