What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

Other Courtesies have been - Other Courtesy may be - We commend ourselves to thee Paragon of Chivalry.

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.