"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

"The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command."

"Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"It's sometimes said that I'm rebellious and I do things to push people's buttons, but I just like the challenge."

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."