Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.