When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.