Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.