All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.
Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.
Everything seems simpler from a distance.
To read and write will help you understand life. . . to sew and mend will help you survive it.
Just for the record, how I feel right now is very terrific.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free - which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.