The mind is a wild thing. An adventurer.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Humility is royalty without a crown.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Do it. Do it right. Do it right now.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Count every moment of existence as a miracle.

Measures are too often decided, not accord­ing to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.