Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

The gift of being able to speak with a holy God because of the righteousness we gain through Jesus on the cross is an indescribable miracle!

Get place and wealth if possible with grace If not by any means get wealth and place.

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them.