I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I don't think balance is ever achieved in the full sense of the word.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.