The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

I have not come to praise Caesar, but to bury him.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back. A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. "By getting up every time I fell down " he answered.

Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand.

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

I went to college to study hospitality. I quickly got out of that and realized that what I liked to do was write.

Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.