Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Life is a war

I believe that love, like magic, casts its own spell of enchantment.

True love is durable and hard to find.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.

We're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.