God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Novelist by day

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

Everything depends on your mental attitude.

Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

I discovered that running actually gave me both physical and mental clarity. I love it.

It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.