“The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.”

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved.

I’m always hungry. I want to be the best.

I’d have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

Our best years are only ahead of us, so we got to continue to keep pushing.

The best players will play. That’s the way it will always be.

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.

I’m just trying to grow. That’s one thing I told myself is, ‘Don’t worry about who people say is the best player’.