We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Love is a heart smile.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

There's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.

So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.