The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

Faith is believing things you know aint true

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.