"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." 

 "Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." 

 "Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please." 

 "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." 

 "People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that." 

 "Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." 

 "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. 

 "People don't start wars, governments do." 

 "The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." 

 "The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."