It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt.

Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

Perhaps they put party loyalty ahead of the welfare of their constituents, are afraid of crossing the president or are as stupid as Mr. Gruber thinks the American people are.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.

The importance of the Bible to a church is to keep the church on track. The role of the Constitution in government is to keep the government on track.