People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.

Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.

The less routine the more life.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The idea that women are 'our own worst enemies' forces us to admit that we don't have the power to be, even if we wanted too.

Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.

Love and respect are above any law

Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.

If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

The theater is so disappointing, really, that it's hard to go again and again. It's just too heartbreaking. I'd rather watch football or play a game or read.

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

I learn every day, and I know that I will never stop learning.