Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

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.

Your true friends are those who evaluate you by who you are as a person, and not by what you have or don't have.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

I don't train. I just run my 3-15 miles a day.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

I'm a full-time mom. I've never felt as prepared, as before maternity.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.