Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

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.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

I know that God is truth, he holds this still—Beyond me he bears all his free will.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.