Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.