I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

It is our courage which defines us, not our constraints

Pray when you feel like praying, " somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.

Honor doesn’t revise according to company just as integrity doesn’t diminish due to circumstance.

I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

I'm in an on-off relationship at the moment.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.