The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.

What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.