Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

It is not the thing on which we spend the most time that moulds us, but the thing that exerts the greatest power. Five minutes with God and His Word is worth more than all the rest of the day.