My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

What you guys want, I’m for.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Well begun is half done.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Applause waits on success.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I always make my dreams into goals.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

I don’t really plan. I’m almost intuitive about things.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.