There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Genius is sorrow's child.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
The day of individual happiness has passed
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Thought is free.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
