Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source

When the rain finally abates, I decide to wait out the night instead of trying to climb in the dark.

Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.