The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Talent silences your competition

Kindness has no religion – no boundaries. It is the trust of the soul.

Some seeksolace inwhiskey, I drown mysorrowsin ink.

Every large brand has franchisees and stores that don't make it. It's unfortunate, and Cold Stone did everything it could to support its franchisees, but some failure rate is part of the business.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.