It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
Endure, and preserve yourselves for better things.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.
In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
Jimmy and I were always partners.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained, what there they found, - Freedom to worship God.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.