Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

To find the rainbow and life’s incredible beauties, learn to play with adversity.

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

I've wanted you since the moment you tried to run me over. You are unlike any woman I have met before. You are strong, and courageous, and you do not suffer fools.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.