"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."

"While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."

"Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines."

"If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it."

"When one has nothing left to lose one becomes courageous. We are timid only when we have something left to cling to."

"Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled."

"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

"Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words."