I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

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.

Maybe the problem isn’t everything and everyone around you, but what lies within you.

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

The more prose I wrote, the more the pendulum swung back toward the middle, merging some poetic sensibilities with the more fundamental elements of creative prose.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

They used to beat me up after Sunday School, I used to get beat up... yeah, that's a nice little thank you from Jesus.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe