Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Courage is grace under pressure.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

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.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.