Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

We let life down: it doesn't let us down.

To pray is to plead.

Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.