Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.

I was trying to get over you! And it didn’t work. I was meant to walk on this earth with only you, I was meant to give only you every piece of me. I don’t want anyone but you. I love you.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

Choose your friends with caution. Plan your future with purpose. Frame your life with faith.