Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care.

I wanted "Champion" to accompany that whole growth situation, 'cause I feel like, if you go overtime, you will become a champion.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it.

Silence kills scandal.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.