What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.

A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Does that mean you agree?" He groaned. "I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down." "Fantastic.

All the world loves a clown.

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

We eat the way we eat because we are afraid to feel what we feel.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.