The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.