It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

I'm sure that the liability for doing a tracheotomy would be tremendous. You make one mistake, and it's over. Most doctors won't even do it.

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

Ah! never shall the land forget.