Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.

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.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

Invited or not, God is present.

Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.

I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.