I have learnt to expect that it will rarely fall to the lot of imperfect man to retire from this station with the reputation and the favor which bring him into it.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

a leadership is a position of action process of abolition, completion of mission, over come oppositionand submission of duties

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

We don't have to seek new economic systems. We have to transform the people who run them.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

Help me, O Lord, that my hands may be merciful and filled with good deeds, so that I may do only good to my neighbors.

You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it.