Who said “A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”?

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?”

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.”

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

“A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, ''There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.''”

“The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.”

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

“No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.”

“The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.”