Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.