"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell."

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

"People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it."

"If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business."

"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend."

"The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does."

"There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many."

"You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence."

"Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."