I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

Anger is a fire of resentment which will burn the bearer and not the receiver.

Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.