Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.

Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

I think Pete Sampras has really reached his peak. About the only thing he doesn't do is cook.

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.