I want you to put more life into your dying.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

There's never an end for the sea.

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

A true patriot would keep the attention of his fellow citizens awake to their grievances, and not allow them to rest till the causes of their just complaints are removed.

there are no quick fixes. If we want our lives to change, we have to do the work.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

A scary but yet beautiful smile

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.