Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

Be like the sun

No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that

Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.