I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

I didn't want a divorce but had to because of circumstance.

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.