I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Happiness will teach you to live your life and pain will tell you the way.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the newborn baby to the child of five is an appalling distance.

An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.