"By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts."

"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."

"It's so simple to be happy, but so difficult to be simple."

"Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings."

"The goal of all life is death."

"Thank goodness you're a failure-- it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you--look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour?"

"No one knows what he can do until he tries."

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."

"It is not the position, but the disposition."

"Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend."