The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. I'm beginning to believe it.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Those who are called by God are predestined for victory

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

I joke that if she [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] could find a 3 a.m. slot in the Home Shopping Network, she would grab that. So those emails only confirm what we knew.

I'm not afraid to look like a fool - and I think when you're not afraid, you never do.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.