As important as it is to possess the willpower to become successful, it's even more important to have the drive to maintain it after you achieve it.

We are citizens of heaven. We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.

Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?

No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise.