To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.