We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

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.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Other people dream while they are asleep. I plot new book ideas.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."