I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

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.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Fruition-Think of writing as a harvest.You till the ground.Plant.Water.Wait.Apple trees take years to bear fruit.Harvest.Clean.Process.Then you have apple pie.

If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to inspire love.

Having appeared at the end of the first creation, man [and women] stand at the beginning of the second, since the world is transfigured through [them].

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the difference between what’s real and what you’ve created in your head?

A grateful heart is like a sponge that soaks up God's goodness.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

I've always found it very... sanitary to be broke.

Christ instructs us to stand up bravely for our beliefs... He asks us to let our lights shine.