In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

I admire great people who endure crisis and triumph over adversities of life.

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.