The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

There's not a lot to do when you don't want to do anything.

Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

I had this notion that I could convince people who were skeptical of national Democrats to vote for me because I could bring home the bacon, or because I could find some personal pitch to them.

You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

The thing I've learned traveling through the United States is that the people in each city are usually awesome, it's generally the 'talking heads' that give us trouble.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.