I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

Indian summer is like a woman.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.