Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

A lie never lives to be old.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.