When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.

I cannot mislead people into believing that I support organized religion. In Jesus' name, I cannot be complicit with many of the things organized religion does.

My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Anyone who knows our family knows this: we eat ALL the time!

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!

There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.