It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.

Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Once we have a nice, conceptual sketch and rendering and design approved, then it's really about pinpointing what's functional and what's not, because functional equals expensive.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.

Define a winning proposition that is consumer right and delivers margin accretion.

Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you're building, whatever you're creating is gonna have a rock-solid foundation.