The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

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.

Always convert your time into wisdom

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

Good luck has its storms.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

The world makes room for passionate people.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.