So long as fortune is favouring you, your defects will remain covered.

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

Dislike in yourself what you dislike in others.

Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals & character is superior to the man who tries to teach & train others.

Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it's for you don't be proud or reckless, and when it's against you be patient, for both days are test for you.

A graceful refusal is better than a lengthy promise.

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Liberals see the Constitution itself as 'living' and 'evolving' that is, gradually turning into something that would have been unrecognizable to its authors.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

You never know how far you can go unless you run.

Little late for that now. I don’t think an ‘Oops, my bad, my weapon accidentally misfired two dozen rounds’ will work to get me out of this. (Devyn)