The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

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.

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

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

All you have to do is decide moment by moment which voice you listen to: the Truth of Love or the nightmare of fear.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.

Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

Obsess about the next customer, not only the ones you have.

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

I always had the same style of play. I didn't really worry about people kicking me.

I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.