"I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"Business is the salt of life"

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures"

"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few"