If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

We get twitted now and then on how we made this country. Well, we took the whole business, of course. It's not just that corner that we took from Mexico. When we got it all together, we got a very shapely country-the best continental cut in all the world, between the two oceans and in the right temperature zone.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

The footpath down to the well is healed.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.