Revolutions are not made, they come.

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.

Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

Clever is the eunuch version of funny.

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

God is on the side with the best artillery

In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.