I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

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.

There's nothing I did not hear, there's nothing I did not see, but I never despair.

Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,

Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

In my next life, I want to come back as one of my dogs. They live nicely.

Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life.

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.