The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.

An effective life is a selfless one

Who you are is why you choose poorly, or fail to choose wisely.

I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

The ego is the separate self through which the universal self can experience the adventure of living.