"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."

"Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You have to make the damn thing work."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

"Many of life's failures are those who didn't know how close they were to success when they gave up."

"The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless."

"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."

"I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood."

"There are more of them than us."

"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."