"The little things in life are the happiest"

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.”

“If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.”

“I write out of defiance.”

“Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.”

“Poverty is just a state of mind,”

Source : "HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind'" by Saba Hamedy, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2017.

“What is this, a Hybrid? You guys must be proud of yourselves.”

“If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.”