Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

The devil attacks you today, because you have got a future. He wants to destroy you for that very reason, because he is scared of your future acts and exploits.

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.

I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

There’s an Iago and a Romeo within all of us. There is that lover, and there is that sociopath.