I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Your mindset determines your reality. Think positive, Act positive and Live positive.

I like to make them squirm.

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.