I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Even jellyfish have a life. So, what's your excuse?

Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what we are doing

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are similar to you, they're not you.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.