Every man's memory is his private literature.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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?

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

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.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Give up trying to make me give up

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives