What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ass back?

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.