No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

Finding who you are means losing yourself, and letting the Creator put you back together!

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.

Savor kindness because cruelty is always possible later.

I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.