In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

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.

Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.

Morganith snorted and didn’t lower her weapon. “One girl can cause alotta trouble, Hari. You and I are proofa that.

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

her stories make you believe in the power of love

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.

Having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat.

I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.