Ease up, the play is over.

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.

People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.

Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.