If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.