America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

fear is dangerous but fear is good

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.

It is sad that the air is the only thing we share. No matter how close we get to each other, there is always air between us.