I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

May you always find your intuitive voice and may the language of your intuition sing.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

My first trip to Canada has been great!

Wait! Don't applaud my cheapness! I've got other crap I need help with!

I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Strike, if you will, but listen.