I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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.

A true friend repays loyalty with loyalty, honesty with honestyand favours with favours.

Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.

It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Money don't rule me, record companies don't rule me.

Let your customers say, 'Well, here I am,' while you say, 'There you are!'.

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.