When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

We are just good friends. This sentence is enough to destroy at least one person.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.