Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no life but that of the factory.

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 will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity, this life and the next.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.

Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

[People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.