The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.