Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

The place to begin the task of eliminating evil is within yourself.

We shouldn't feel insulated just because water flows freely from our taps.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.