Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.

Loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they too, fade away.

Shouldn't you be asking for my name first?

Satisfaction will come to those who please themselves.

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

That's where faith comes in. I've struggled more with being away from her. She keeps me strong. Being away from her means I have to stay in the Word and to stay strong throughout the season.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words.