God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

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.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

For a large majority of youth raised in church, the church has become irrelevant to their goals and pursuits in life

Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul.

The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.

Medical care for the entire country seems to me a basic right. If every other country in the West can do it, why can't we?