It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

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 true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

But this is your home''Not any longer, my poppet. Women make nests but men make bequests and scatter them. Heigh-ho!

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.

Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

Patch: “Let’s get out of here.” – Nora: “Where are we going?” – Patch: “You’ll see.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

I forced myself to picture the last moments. The penultimate breath. A final sigh. And yet. It was always followed by another.

Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man.