Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

Less government in business and more business in government.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There is beauty in tragedy. And we all believed!

Any fool can tell the truth but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

This story, I predict, will grow to be worse than Watergate. The American people need to have the answers.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.