The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

Angelo was a grown man, and here was one thing he was quite free to decide for himself, and yet he was ready to let others make up his mind for him...that could only be stupidity.

Jake, you’re a dern grasshopper, ” Augustus said. “You ride in yesterday talking Montana, and today you’re talking California.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

Solutions can't be imposed. That just fosters resentment.

Your services might be as useful as a barbershop on the steps of a guillotine.

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.