I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

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.

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.

It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.