Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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.

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.

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

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Courage is grace under pressure.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

A lie never lives to be old.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.