The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

Surrender to what you know and you'll know more.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.