I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."

Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

I know that I can save this country and that no one else can.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

Rules for today: 1) Pray 2) Laugh 3) Repeat. The only reason to take this life too seriously is if it's your only one.

Since Democrats vs. Republicans has been obliterated, no real difference between parties.

Everything starts with writing.

All television is children's television.

Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile.