Not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Success depends on your attitude

That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him.

We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

God gave mankind a divine duty to protect all the animals in the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.

Love the world With your heart's dreams. Serve the world With your life's promises.