I may … surprise you - but I shall not deceive you.

You all got only three friends in this world: The Lord God Almighty, the Sears Roebuck catalog and Eugene Talmadge. And you can only vote for one of them

You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.

A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

People fear what they do not understand.

You will never be able to do anything of true value without Christ. Apart from Him all things are meaningless.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

Let no one turn you down because you are young.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.