"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

"You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys."