Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

Peace without justice is tyranny

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.

I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.

I have a bad grammar, but I do have a good message in it.

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

Ask the young. They know everything.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.

I really forget that I have no arms or legs sometimes.

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Genius speaks only to genius.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for