History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Honesty has a power that very few people can handle

The only color I judge people by is the color of their teeth.

This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

And all of the big shots of the car industry are there, strutting their stuff. And that year, they're feeling especially good because cars were selling more than ever before.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person than trust and loyalty.