My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

Every expert was once a beginner.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Nature is made of vibrations of Love.

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.