Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our ideals are our better selves.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.

I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.