Eat bread. You don't know if it's been polluted. Drink water, you don't know whether it's been polluted. So living is a test.
It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.
I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.
[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!
Personal power is a feeling, like life.
It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.
Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.