The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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.

Staying humble and being grateful is a perfect combination for longterm leadership

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.

I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

The minute you think you know everything about tennis is the minute your game starts going down the tubes.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.