All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.