Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.

I love weddings: happy people coming together to celebrate in great clothes.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.

I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.