Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

As a kid, I wasn't listening to The Who; I was listening to Frankie Knuckles.

When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.