A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

How Do I Listen to others? As if everyone were my Master Speaking to me His Cherished Last Words.

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.

Every day, without fail, I eat some dark chocolate.

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.