"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

"The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men."

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

"I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

"No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention."

"Property has its duties as well as its rights."

"FOREFINGER, n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors."

"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."