America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.