"About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."

"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."

"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."

"Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

"At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?"

"I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter."

"Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be."

"All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be."

"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears."

"But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate."

"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."

"In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them."