Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

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.

Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.

…It was like he waved his magic wang, and I totally forgot how I’m not a gullible teenager anymore.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.

Everything that I do, I try to put myself into it.

D'Angelo could sing the phonebook and it would sound good.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.