I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

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.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.