"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy."

"Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river."

"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed."

"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick."

"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

"EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort."

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

"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."

"Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."

"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."