No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Be kind to one another. Karma will be swift or slow but she will always come.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

I give myself up to darkness

Sometimes the hardest part of growing it is not the responsabilities you might get, but it is to lose the essence of love, and never find the way back to where it was.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

What I know for sure is that whatever has happened to you has also happened for you.