I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

To gaine teacheth how to spend. [To gain teacheth how to spend.]

Count your blessings - not your troubles.

Freedom is living without chains.

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.