No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.

I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

every troubled time and every troubled person.

It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.

The circle of white cotton told me that when we're feeling poorest—when we've lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful—that's when God says, You're richer than you think.

Clouds, too, can give light if only the sun shines on them.