Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Unafraid, Unashamed, Lord we know who we are, We are the people and we won't be silent.Unified hear us cry at the top of our lungs, You are our God and we will not be shaken!

You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.

Focus on the systematic process and the things you have control.

I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right