You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

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.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.