If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

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.

When someone tells me "no, " it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

It is just fun to play with [in "Mary and Jane"]. I think our sense of humor tends to go that way.

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.