Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Ad astra per aspera. Translated: "to the stars through difficulties".

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

I answer not, and I return no more.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.

...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

There is only one creature who is always right is a WOMAN...!!!

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Mealtime's the only time I get to devote to the things of the spirit.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.