Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.