While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.

Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

I guess I would ideally want to be 20 physically, but 40 mentally.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.