The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Hide your good actions as you would your bad.

Oh yes. It was well worth it, doing things the proper way.

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

Your public servants serve you right; indeed often they serve you better than your apathy and indifference deserve.

Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

For makeup, a bit of blusher — what you call bronzer — a bit of an eye, and an eyelash curler.

Life NEVER slows down.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.