Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. 

Fools buy houses—the wise live in them.

What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.  

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.