The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy rather in power than use; and keep thy friend under thine own life's key; be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received-only what you have given.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Women are made to be loved not understood.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.