It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

Teach the people with love and help them abide to biblical principles

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.