Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Courage is grace under pressure.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Fashion changes, but style endures.