As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent.

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

The A-bomb is dynamite.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.