Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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.

Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

Learn to give for free because this is the best way to serve humanity.

Memory was a slippery thing—slick moss on an unstable slope—and it was ever so easy to lose one’s footing and fall

Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

God has invited us, as mere human beings, to add to the beauty of his plan and creation