The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Most of us don't have the past in our favor but we have to realize that we still have the present.

Sincerity is simplicity.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as 'new.'

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.

My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.