Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

The property of power is to protect.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.