If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. 

One of the advantages of renting a house is that you can easily change it if you don’t like it.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

There are two kinds of laws people are eternally scared of—in-laws and outlaws!

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.