"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

"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."

"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."

"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'"

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

"Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them."

"But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."

"Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he."

"A lot of the things we've done have been common sense. You do what makes sense to you and make moves that you are comfortable making. Everything is having fun in mind."