“I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.”

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

To make a mistake is only human; to persist in a mistake is idiotic.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.

A man of faith is also full of courage.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

Whatever road you choose, I’m right behind you win or lose.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It’s the decision to stay the same.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Choose the path that feels lighter.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

It’s safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don’t know why you do it.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.