If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

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.

A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

Faith is blossom garden.

So now, when I look back, all I see is who we used to be and who we are now. And I wonder how anybody can recognize anyone at all.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

When they confronted her like this, she felt like a delicate freaking time bomb just waiting for a time and a place to explode.

If there's one big thing you can take from Amy Poehler as a performer, it's committing, full on.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.