In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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.

If a criminal was once a saint & a saint was once a criminal, then who is the criminal & who is the saint?

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God.

Crazy friends provide for crazy times, and such crazy times we're had.

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are