One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.

I don't know how people feel,that's the beauty of TV, is they can see us, but we can't see them.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

I am ashes where once I was fire.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.