Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.

Ay, is it not a language I speak?