Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

We all have our secrets

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

The remedy now is two scotches and an aspirin, I think.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.