The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Life is a risk.

Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

When I was young I said to God "God tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said "God tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God...

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or the...

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

Repentance is for little children.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said...

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.