In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

It bothered me that we behaved differently when other people were at the arcade. It bothered me that we had to be different at different times. I wished we could always be ourselves.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated

The Word of God is different than other words because God's Word is stuffed full of power and anointing.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.