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

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

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

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

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

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

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