Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

Whatever you do, never forget to love everyone around you.

A wise woman knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser woman of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle, when all odds stand against her.

In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

No matter what the people say, I'm gonna love you anyway. Girl, you're my first love.

If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will be all the richer.

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out.

Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.