The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

The way to resumption is to resume.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.

States Rights died at Appomattox.

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

How wrong it is for those who love, not to express their love.

All men are born equally free.

No more slave States and no more slave territory.

never wait for anyone to make you happy

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.

I have good feet but they always get cut off in photo shoots.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

When she lives at his palace, the maiden niece of a bishop can pass for a respectable woman because, if she has a love affair, she is obliged to hoodwink her uncle.

[On her husband:] The other day he woke up with a headache. I felt sorry for him. I would like to help him but I can't. I told him so many times. When he jumps out of bed - it should be feet first.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.