Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

With hope, a mind is always free.

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

We believe very strongly that you stop that denial of coverage by promoting choice. Let people make the decisions.

You can't win with sin.

I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

In the back of every painting there's an entire universe that makes it possible for the painting to be there: an army of conservators, technicians, people who maintain these things, the market.