Stupidity has no friends, and wants none.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

Common sense is very uncommon.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

The artist should always be the student.

I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.