What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Our first and last love is self-love.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
Disciples [deep people] are not manufactured wholesale. They are produced one by one, because someone has taken the pains to discipline, to instruct and enlighten, to nurture and train one that is younger.
I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
I didn't know that there were any radio stations in Nova Scotia.