I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage

Ignorance never protected anyone for long.

Act one: put your characters in a tree. Act two: throw rocks at them. Act three: get them down again.

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.

God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.

When boys and girls go out to play there is always someone left behind, and the boy who is left behind is no use to the girl who is left behind.

The beating of my own heart Was all the sound I heard.

But whatever you've been today is already over.