You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.