We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Let thy words be few. I agree, but only if my ink can relentlessly run.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

It is better to travel, than to arrive

Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me

At the Olympics, you there to do a job. I feel you should take it seriously. You should be respectful. You are putting on the red-white-and-blue and going out there to perform for your country.