"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."

"Oliver's Law"

"Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat."

"To fail to plan is to plan to fail."

"Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it."

"Be afraid of a gentleman when he is hungry, and of a mean person when his stomach is full."

"It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake."

"For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her."

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

"It is better to think too much, than to think too little"

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you."