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.

If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.But if you don't, you'll find ways to falsify it.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

Hungry people have especially clear minds.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

I used to throw things out, saying, 'This isn't great.' It didn't occur to me that it didn't have to be great.