A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Our identity is affected less and less by what we produce and more and more by what we consume.

Sweetheart, this is not a race to the finish line. It’s you and me, spending time together and getting to know each other better. Just that simple.

Dreams are not what you see in your sleep, dreams are things which do not let you sleep.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

I don't know if I'm the best Pound-For-Pound fighter ever. I know I'm close. I gotta be Top 5.

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it