I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

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.

Only after a person has their heart broken does the world appear as it truly is.

But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood vanish in an instant. You had to press on, no matter how dark and narrow the path ahead seemed.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.

I never expect a soldier to think.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.

All history was at first oral.