True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.

O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"

I go around the country and do a simple gag like, 'The property ladder is now a snake' and get a real laugh.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.