If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.

I give no more paroles to British officers.

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The longest Day hath an Eueninge.

Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

In the studio you have pretty much carte blanche with whatever you're doing. You can turn natural instruments into electronic instruments.

Start right now to put into practice some of the things that have been taught to us today.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.