The coldest bodies warm with opposition; the hardest sparkle in collision.

I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

early to bed, early to rise.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking and is voting for the other guy.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Some people would rather get even instead of get ahead.

Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone--and all is gray.

Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you, You shall no more be called shoemakers. But you and yours to the world's end Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.

Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.

O Christ, my life, possess me utterly. Take me and make a little Christ of me. If I am anything but thy father's son, 'Tis something not yet from the darkness won. Oh, give me light to live with open eyes. Oh, give me life to hope above all skies.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.