Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Sunlight is painting.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.