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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.