We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same.

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Nearly 100 years ago, when Planned Parenthood was founded, birth control was illegal.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

We are bound by nothing except belief.

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.