Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.