A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life!

I have my gun and my bible under my pillow, having to fight physically and spiritually is a foregone conclusion, I will kill whoever comes to kill me, no mercy.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!