A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets.

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

If my name were John D Smith IV I wouldn't have been elected to anything.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals we disseminate widely in our environment?