I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Boards don't hit back.

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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