The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The greatest enemy to fear is truth.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.