It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.
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.
Thought is free.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Effective action is always unjust.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
