I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

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.

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

Movies bore me; especially my own.