We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Had the jury convicted on proper instructions it would be the end of the matter. But juries are not bound by what seems inescapable logic to judges.

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece.

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that my children should be bred up in it too.