I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

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.

I do not think, Prospero, ' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

There are two ways to be happy: Change the situation, or change your mindset towards it.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

Many strange things happen in this world

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.