"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"Spend and be spent."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"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."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

"Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world."

"Why is it OK to love without a reason, but anger requires justification?"

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"Yes, our company is at risk because we cede control to the users, but that's how we do our business. If the community decides to kill the business, maybe it deserves to die."

"As was his language so was his life."