If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

A country-bred man can always learn to get on with city people, but a town-bred fellah never gets the real hang of the country. You can put city poli…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

[On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the h…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of whic…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away f…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a w…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull