I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I am not now That which I have been.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

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

I'll always be poor in my mind.

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

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

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.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

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

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