Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Since the world is ending, ” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

What's there to remember if not the good things?

What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity.

Someday was the thing he had, because it was a lot harder to ruin than today.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me to capture notes, conversations and ideas.

Courage comes by being brave; fear comes by holding back.