There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

I like some of the young guys like Senator Thune. He's a guy that looks good. He's very articulate, he's very smart, and he truly is a public servant.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.