I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Each day's dawn is a sweet symphony and as long as I hear the music, my dreams will have to die another day.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.