Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

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.

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

Rick Perry was philosophical about (his election losses). He said, 'Last week was Iowa. Yesterday was New Hampshire. ' He said at least it's giving him a chance to learn the names of all the states.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.