A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Love and learn from everyone, but follow your heart, and your inner conviction.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.