The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Without vulnerability, you're not really alive.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.