...be more guided by hope than fear.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

If you can act right, you are richer than you think.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

The poetry of country music will survive.