Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Look at the world around you and focus on the possibilities not the problem.

I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

We are all precancerous.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

My god will wipe this country (America) from the face of the earth.