Remember that I too am mortal.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.