Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Just as heart is a fountain of unspoken words, the universe is a womb of wonder weird worlds.

Why is it, " he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you, " she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?

American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.