The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

Pray with expectation to get an answer.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.