The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

There is a terrible lot of us who don't think that we come from a monkey, but if there are some people who think that they do, why, it's not our business to rob them of what little pleasure they might get out of imagining it.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.