Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Solutions to mankind’s problems are easy and obvious. They remain unsolved because those who could solve them – don’t want to.

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum, our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts, nothing you could touch.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

I've seen wonderful stay-at-home moms and moms who could use a little improving.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.