There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Hate would destroy him who hated.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little.

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.