"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
- Oscar Wilde

"Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?"

- RFK (as quoted by Ed Kennedy)