I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Courage is grace under pressure.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

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

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

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

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.

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

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

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

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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

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.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.