I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

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.

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

The warrior of the night is a wondrous soul.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

I want to be a major force.