Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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.

I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

Don't be so fast, you're all you've got.

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is . . . well, an umpire.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.