I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

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.

Do not pursue what you cannot keep.

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life

However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.