Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.