A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Treat your body like you would treat a friend.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

when men don't like another man everyone assumes he's no good and that the men know what they are talking about, yet when women dislike another woman people just think they're being catty.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Love is reducing the universe to one being.