"There is no sin greater than ignorance."

"I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew,0); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who."

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."

"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."

"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after."

"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb."