The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

You're not lost in a storm, Marilyn. You are the storm!

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Onward we stagger, and if the tanks come, may God help the tanks.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?