If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

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.

Happy soul

I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.

The only demise of Shaquille O'Neal will be his age.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.