Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

Take pride in how far you've come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.