Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

He who is brave is free.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Sacrifice precedes any success.

Some of us make it out. But the game is played with loaded dice. I wish I had known more, and I wished I had known it sooner.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

God is greater than God.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.

...we are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption, but should resist making conclusions until evidence requires that we do so.

love is what we are about, my darling," she says. "Not even in death has our love faded, for I live in your veins.