Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Poetry, is a life long war wagedagainst ineffable beauty.

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life

There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

There is no way to greatness. Greatness is the way.

Your sin is not greater than God’s mercy.

Often, warriors find their lives meaningless.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.