Who said “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his…”?

“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?”

“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.''”

“Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.”

“In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.”

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.”

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible — not to have run away.”

“Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.”

“In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.”