No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

He who stops being better stops being good.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Necessity has no law.

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Put your trust in God my boys, but mind to keep your powder dry.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a cross bow decision to the releasing of the trigger.

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.

My spirit thirst for the living water.

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, those guys mean so much to me because I watched those guys and how they transform and watch the commitment to what they do. I admire them.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that.

I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

The White House tapes, the recordings that Nixon made of his conversations in office, have long been recognized as a marvel of verbal incontinence.

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.