Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.

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.

The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn.

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms of the dominant class.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?