You can't help the poor by being one of them.

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.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.

Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.