Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.