The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

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.

Knowledge is the seed, intelligence is the stem, understanding is the branch, and wisdom is the fruit.

I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?

And you know something, because everything that I've gotten - my career, my money, my family; everything that I've gotten and achieved is because of California.

I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .

There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

What I'm good at is making art.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.