...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.