Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

When you recognize or experience the truth about yourself you automatically feel love, because love is a quality of your true consciousness and true ideas.

If you always point others back to biblical truth and scripture, you allow God to become the reflection for others, not you.

Endure pain to turn it into your power.

Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

History is the self-consciousness of humanity.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.