Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Education made us what we are.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

The keys to America: The cross, the brew, the dollar, and the gun.

I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

Decisions are the doorway to change.