As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.

The only thing worth conquering, is our own fears.

At its very heart, Worldchanging is about using the best of people's new ideas, bringing them together and applying them to the massive problems that we all face.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.