Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.

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.

Children are our future. Unfortunately, we are their past.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

For us, patriotism is the same as the love of humanity.

Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.

The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.