I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.