Know thine opportunity.

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

You should know which opportunities to choose.

The best state is that in which bad men are not allowed to hold office, and good men are not allowed to refuse office.

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.

That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

Life is but a fine wine to be sipped and favored.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.

If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.

The purpose of education should be character-building.

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

It takes some silence to make sound.

The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.

Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.

Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution.