The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

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.

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

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.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Never Throw Stones At Your Mother

I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob