Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

A lot of political people, especially people on the left, have forgotten the importance of humor as an incredible weapon, and a vehicle through which to affect change.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.