The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

Pain makes people who they are.

You need to silence the voices that say you cannot do what you set out to.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust, ' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

I appoint the laziest person to do the hardest job as they'll find the easiest way to do it

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

My favorite toast is rye toast.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.