“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.”

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.

Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.