You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

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.

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

With the power of solitude, you can actually take up a decision to invent anything.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Grace is Grace.

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

The resentment of discipline of any kind will warp the whole life away from God's purpose.

Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want to pay the price.

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to let them down so that’s why I don’t misbehave.