To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war.

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

The body remembers what your mind forgets.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.