Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

A pilot must have a memory developed to absolute perfection. But there are two higher qualities which he also must have. He must have good and quick judgment and decision, and a cool, calm courage that no peril can shake.