A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader’s life.

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

When we deal with the name and reputation of another we deal with something sacred in the sight of the Lord.

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

I definitely talk about stuff I watch, but it's longer-form stuff.

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.