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

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

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

Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

That's life again. We can't decide what we like.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.