When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives us time for anything.

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.

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

The West sometimes doesn't understand Bollywood, but they can definitely understand how Bollywood influences people.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I try to dream about peaceful things, beaches, that is what I cannot understand. Why are they chasing me?

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

I've always had a fascination with hugging (I'm not really particular about who or what it is I'm embracing as long as there's a “squish” factor).

The media ignores what is really going on.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.