Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

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.

Sometimes we look around and realize we need new friends. That’s the sign that they are just around the bend :)

We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.

Be grateful for each moment, for we know not which will be our last.

Sure you do. Everyone wants to play. They’re just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what’s stupid? Not trying. So just…try.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.