My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.