Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

WHILE THE WORLD'S ASLEEP, ANGELS REFUSE TO SLEEP!

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.

Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

I have the same confidence in the ability of our people to reject noxious literature as I have in their capacity to sort out the true from the false in theology, economics, or any other field.