"When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit."

"While you're saving your face you're losing your ass."

"Maybe I should have screwed up."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it."

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

"The less a person accomplishes in a day, the more he talks during meals."

"I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."

"They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded."

"The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn."

"Keen at the start, but careless at the end."

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."

"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."