How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

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.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

There is no law governing all things.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.