Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.