Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.

Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers.

Whenever you say 'yes' to anything, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your 'yes' is worth the less.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.