“Life is too short to be little.”
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”
“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”
“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”