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.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

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.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

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.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.