Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

More than guided missiles, all the world needs guided men.

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

I believe in analysis and not forecasting.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

Books can take you places.

Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.