"You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested."

"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle."

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."

"Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your family."

"God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind."

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."

"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

"A contented mind is a continual feast."