“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.