I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

Once you face the truth, the knowledge both empowers you and sets you free.

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

There is a single energy of God and the saints? they are living icons of Christ, being the same as He is, by grace rather than by assimilation.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Men are not potatoes!

The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.