The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.