Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.

Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.