It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.

...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...

I'm an athlete who's very determined and I understand sacrifice.

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game.