Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

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.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

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

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.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

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.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Freedom is from within.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.