"People judge you not by the size of your feet, but by whether your socks match."

"Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must."

"There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way."

"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"

"A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly."

"All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be."

"Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy."

"It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am."

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all."

"The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars."

"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation."

"To deny a developing mind access to its specialty is cruel. To judge one's worthiness in the specialties of others is equally inhuman."