My voice is still for war.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Like Cupid, your promiseswere just misses.

When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

Coffee first. Save the world later.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

The last guy tried to get out of me writing him a ticket by saying, 'Kiss me, big boy, kiss me like there's no tomorrow!'...as I recall, I didn't write that ticket.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you believe in god, you're wrong.