"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."