I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

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.

Brace for the worst, hope for the best

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, and loving in order to find and feel the deepest joy of life.

If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

I count myself really fortunate that I have some lifelong friends. The best thing about a friend is when you are being your own worst enemy a friend can help snap you out of it.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

Putin is like Al Capone.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.