We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

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.

Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.

He he he... Crazy? Cicero? He he he he! That's... madness.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

Discovery hapens in the overlap of difference communities... in the clashes of difference.