“A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don’t know what they are talking about.”

I’ve learned that under everyone’s hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

I’m always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

Don’t rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

We’re all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people’s idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

I’ve learned, That life is tough, but I’m tougher.

I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I’d be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn’t believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don’t think it does.

Those of us who don’t have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading “Confused.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

So inspired by what it means to be a woman of substance. A woman of great poise and assertiveness.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.