My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.

You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?

The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace in religion.

Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.

Faithfulness is my promise to love you forever

... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite care/ the poem which i do not write.

Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

To lie to yourself, and thereby to everyone else.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.