One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.