“The infinitely small have a pride infinitely great.”

“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.”

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”

“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”

“Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.”

“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”

“I’ve been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I’m not without compassion.”

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

“We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have see our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.”

“A team that thinks it’s going to lose is going to lose.”

“Getting to the final is everything, and winning is icing on the cake.”

“Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn’t do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.”

“Don’t succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.”

“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

“It is and has always been an American zeal to be first in everything we do, and to win…”

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“You never win a game unless you beat the guy in front of you. The score on the board doesn’t mean a thing. That’s for the fans. You’ve got to win the war with the man in front of you. You’ve got to get your man.”

“The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince.”

“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.”