Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Genius is the gold in the mine talent is the miner that works and brings it out.

Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything.