History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Romance is like maintaining a car. If you do a good job of it, you will always have a dependable quiet ride.

Fear is finding fault with the future.

We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.

It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.