The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

Unfortunately, I don't have much free time

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.