Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

I'm trusting everyone around me who seems to be confident and happy with what we're up to.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

The language denotes the man. A coarse or refined character finds its expression naturally in a coarse or refined phraseology.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.

In Texas, we cook bacon a little differently than most folks...MACHINE-GUN BACON.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.