“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land – the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can’t see it.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

But the love of adventure was in father’s blood.