“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

We grew up in the Rose Park section of Salt Lake City. It’s a good neighborhood but a tough one, on the poor side but proud.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.

In my life, I’ve seen everything, and one thing I know for sure is you can’t win in the federal court.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I’ll use a Canadian one-dollar coin.

When your hands are cold, and you’re hitting with old, low-quality irons – my first one was a Merlin model with a green shaft – you learn what to do to hit the ball solid.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.