The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

Voter apathy is a civic abdication.

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.