Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

Losing composure is pointless.

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.