Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Give up trying to make me give up

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Dare to risk public criticism.

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.