I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Once you label me you negate me.

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?

Give up trying to make me give up

Moonlight is sculpture.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

A lie never lives to be old.

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

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

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

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

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

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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