Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

Just always be waiting for me.

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.