When you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away it is best to let him run.

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.

Is there anything that can replace life?

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

I look at you because I can't look away.

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

You never fully get over [losing a presidential campaign]. But I've had a good life. I've enjoyed myself 90 percent of the time.

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.