Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

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.

The viola and the clarinet made for an interesting pairing: we had to imagine the accompaniment of other instruments, ideally a violin and a cello.

Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

When you look down the length of your chain and see it is made mostly of weak links it is time to pull out the bolt cutters.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?

I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.