“A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, «At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.»”

The favor of princes is as uncertain as the wind.

Never mistake motion for action.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Id rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not done.