"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

"I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason."