A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.

Ennui is the disease of hearts without feeling, and of minds without resources.

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry.

Why aren’t the thinks I’m thinking getting thunk on the page any faster?!? (from Stop Lying: Writing Is Hard on ChristopherLehman.com)

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.

What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

I'll meet you at the altar" "I'll be the one in white!