No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

You have a great potential.Explore your special skills.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

Students were taught by doing.

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage.