Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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.

As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy.

Frustration is the result of failed expectations.

A woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self confident.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!