What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

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.

A perfectly clear photograph is a distortion of reality.

There are strings in the human heart which must never be sounded by another, and drinks that I make myself are those strings in mine.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

When men start talking about 'honor', there is sure to be trouble ahead.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.

The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails.

Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.