If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part.

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London.

Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

If you see yourself as a kingly type, then you need your serfs and your army and so on around you.

Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.