It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

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.

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

I know always that I am an outsider

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.