When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

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.

Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

How easy love makes fools of us.

It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.