"I hate middle age. Too young for the bowling green, too old for Ecstasy."

"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"

"People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know."

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

"I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track."

"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."

"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up."

"The only way to succeed is to make people hate you."