The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

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.

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.

To know oneself means, among other things, to know oneself qua non-sage: that is, not as a sophos, but as a philo-sophos, someone on the way toward wisdom.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

Most things don't stay the way they are very long.

Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.