Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.

They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights.

It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark sides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Ugliness sees ugliness

The greatest profit, is to make your own gain.

No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity

Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

All truths wait in all things.