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

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

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

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty.'"

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"Nothing in life is promised except death."

"And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."