When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.