In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.

We don't reach the light through endless analysis of the dark. We reach the light by choosing the light.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.