Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Big results require big ambitions.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

Change alone is unchanging.

Those who are awake all live in the same world. Those who are asleep live in their own worlds.

What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

You never know what you have till you've lost it.

If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

Every single one of us can do something, however small, to make a difference.

When I take the oath of office next year [2017] I will restore law and order to America. Believe me, believe me.

I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.