Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

Careful! The kraken is wagging its tentacle, again.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.