I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

Even when we earn a lot of money, how we earn it should be a pleasant experience.

She looked up into Wharick's ethereal face, her eyes drifting across his features. Close your mouth, Keirah. Her brain finally caught up with her face's reaction.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.