My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

Don't put your confidence in big names When they die and return to the dirt they can't do anything for you.

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Things just enter reality through photographs.