“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

All right, then, I’ll go to hell.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

If you don’t back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn’t mean a thing.

Don’t pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Even in a hard time, God is still working.

If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.

More men have become great through practice than by nature.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn’t see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.