Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

Joy is what people take, happiness is what you make, pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind.

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!