The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

It's the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserve any thanks anyway.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.