“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.”

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying”

“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”