Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Don't judge a man by the size of his ego or his heart, but on the epicness of his beard and the beautiful woman on his arm

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.