This is the last of earth! I am content.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

If you look at the last decade of global temperature, it's not increasing.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.