We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

I think it's really important to follow your intuition and gut, and try not to do things just for the sake of pleasing other people.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.

We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

I've lost touch with a lot of that boutique-type music just because of my age, and raising my son and the multiple jobs I have at this point.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

Nature is God's Old Testament.