"A war put off is not a war avoided."

“Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.”

“I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.”

“Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.”

“Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.”

Source : "Can Stockwell Day separate church from state?" by Gordon Laird, www.theglobeandmail.com. July 17, 2000.

“I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.”

“I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things.”

“Audiences will get just as tired of people wrestling on a bed as they did of Tom Mix kissing his horse.”