Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

It can be consoling to think your children are in heaven. You have got to understand that that doesn't make it true. Many people cannot understand that distinction.