Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Ah! A man who doesn't know how to watch love is so silly. You really need a lesson.

We must manifest the glory of God on earth.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

The greatest obstacle is simply this: the belief that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. That is the addict's excuse.