"Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up."

"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

"The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps."

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

"There are many fine ideals which are not realisable, and yet we do not refrain from teaching them."

"There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."