The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
I just can't conceive of how a person could hate another because of skin color. I love every race on the planet earth.