Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

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.

Thought is free.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Common sense is not so common.

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

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

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

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

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

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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

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.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Once you label me you negate me.