Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

In times of turbulence, we must keep calm and be patient.

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

I didn't have a very religious family.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Drop it like it's hot.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.