"When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit."

"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."

"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

"Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites."

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing."

"We must always have old memories and young hopes."

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

"Go to other people's funerals or they won't come to yours."

"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."