I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.

Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis!" I just couldn't shut (it) off.

If you worry about anyone having a go at you for having ideas, we'd still all be living in caves.

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

I love the laconic. Clearly, I am not of their number.