I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

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.

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe!

You will not publish 100% of the books you don’t write.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

I had no idea what I wanted, only that I wanted something, which is the worst kind of wanting.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.