Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

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.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

That which costs little is less valued.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality