The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

The people at the NSA aren't trying to ruin your life. They're not trying to put you in authoritarian dystopia. These are normal people trying to do good work in hard circumstances.

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.

I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

That's your life. Get used to it. Don't get mad at me- you married him.

I've never proclaimed myself to be a shooter. But I am definitely a scorer.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?