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

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

- 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

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

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped a…

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull