Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

There can be no security where there is fear.

No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.

Never forget who was with you from the start....The people who stick by you at your worst, deserve to enjoy being with you at your best.

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

'Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with Daisies lie- That Commerce will continue- And Trades as briskly fly.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.

Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges from it can be thought of as metafictional.

Bella, there's a part of you that loves me.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.