“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”

“You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”