Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

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.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

The Word of Wisdom does not promise you perfect health, but it teaches how to keep the body you were born with in the best condition and your mind alert to delicate spiritual promptings.

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, A good mouth-filling oath.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.