When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Many's very human habit of trusting in himself is generally the last great obstacle blocking his pathway to victory in Christian experience.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter.

Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

My muse is very often, in my mind, a nagger. She nags me.

Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.