I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

Man O' War was a great racehorse, but if I put a extra 20 pounds on him they would say I was cruel to the animal. So don't ask me to do that to Chavez.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know?

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.