It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

Never do wrong when people are looking.