Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
The future ain't what it used to be.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
