I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.