Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Write what you know.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

You want to do work that is remembered, you want to be a part of something that's remembered.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.

In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.