The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

There have been great champions in every generation.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.