And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Work and Pray always been a good combination.

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.

There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer.

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?