I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

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.

What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.

You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.

I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

Will somebody hold me?

I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.