Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

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.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.The gray area between yes and no.Silence.

It was as hard to comprehend that your life would never end as it was to comprehend that it would.

I love it when a man cooks it's one of those points that makes me adore a guy. I think it's so romantic and I feel cared for when a man cooks.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I don't really know that much about love, it turns out.

Never make a promise without a plan.