Everything you use in a modern life style has to be made using a tool of some sort.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

Cause I'll know my weakness, know my voice. And I'll believe in grace and choice. And I know perhaps my heart is farce, But I'll be born without a mask.

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

Normally, I'm so shy.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.