“Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

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.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Maybe a president who didn’t believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Try to believe that still within you are flowers left to bloom.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

What I believe in is love your neighbor as yourself and don’t call him stupid because they don’t agree with you politically.