Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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.

To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development.

The state of no being knows neither pleasure nor pain.

The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

I think the 50mm lens is an extremely good discipline lens; it requires you to see in a more refined way, not just tighter.

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.