The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire.

A good role comes along, and a good role is a good role.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.

Lives don't divide up into chapters. People don't just talk, while nothing's going on in their head, and then respond. You know, none of these things actually happen.