My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.

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.

While there's life, there's hope.

Learning is the only game worth playing in life.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything one's last is to come to terms with everything.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything.

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.