The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.

A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.