Be careful the environment you choose will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.