Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Energise your desires utilising your heart energy to create the things that you wish for in your life.

In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.

You have to have the courage to face the unexpected. This is the difference between people who do things and people who don't dare, who don't dare to live.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.

One day you too may experience what I have experienced. So right away go and practise.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; "You + God = Enough