Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

When I want to treat myself, I will almost always get myself a new handbag.

We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

Aphorisms know the angles, but not the structure.

It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.