The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

All great achievements require time.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.