The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully.

I was drafted during the Korean War.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

Obama's an angry guy. He's got a chip on his shoulder.

When I'm answering questions from the Denver media, I'm not worried about what the Broncos' people are going to think. I'm worried about what Belichick will think.