The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

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.

Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.

Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeing meteor a fast flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?

The greatest gift on this planet is to love and be loved.

I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.