“I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more.”

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”

“All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.”

“Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.”

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

“I think the world is run by ‘C’ students.”

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”