Thomas Jefferson

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Never spend your money before you have it.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less planning and more living…

Join the dance.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

What I greatly hope for these children everywhere, is a new attitude toward life–free from the gullibility which thinks we can get something for nothing; free from the greed which thinks any permanent good can come of overreaching others; and, above all, expectant of change, so that when life gives them a jolt they will be fully prepared to push on eagerly along new lines.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities.

Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation – it is the one unbreakable diamond.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

You are so much more than what people have done to you, and to let that define you, would be a tragedy.

Take the high road, there’s a lot less traffic up there.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.