Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself

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.

Remaining focus is the key to success. You cannot be successful if you are focusing on everyone else

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.