He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

When I sing, people shut up.

I want what you want. Whenever you want it.

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

The gods do not fight against necessity.

I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.