Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.

Don't forget to be kind, you will make someone's day!

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

Love is not found, love finds.

Everybody should customize their names.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.