“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

The good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.