I did not see the sense in chasing a little white ball around a field.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.

All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal.

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.