There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.