I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

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 spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.

Everyone dies. That is a universal constant. The only variable is how one dies.

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!