My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

In the past the man has been first

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

I don't really look at myself as a power hitter. I look at myself as someone who drives the ball to the gaps, hits line drives.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

To take the world as one finds it

When the promise is clear, the price gets easy

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.