The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Be peaceful to bring peace to the world.

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine.

Those who put their heart and soul into something bigger than themselves, never die from the psyche of humanity.

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

I'm single by choice. Not my choice.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything.