Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.