I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

The theory of Economics must begin with a correct theory of consumption.

The gospel reveals the glory of God. According to God's Word, he is the sovereign Creator of all things.

If America could get along with Russia, that's a positive thing.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

Running away will never make you free.

I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.

All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.