I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Freedom is from within.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

That which costs little is less valued.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

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

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Courage is grace under pressure.