The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Effective action is always unjust.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.