"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer."

"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."

"Consciousness of our powers augments them."

"We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices."

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."

"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings."