When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.