“it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.”

“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.”

“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.”

“There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t.”