You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant spaces in their heads with soul. Which explains how it is that the less knowledge they have, the more religion.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.