I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

We are fooles one to another.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.