If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

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.

What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Métro.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

I alternate between reading cook books and reading diet books.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.