The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

By and large, I've been healthy all my life.

Mobile use is growing faster than all of Google's internal predictions.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Keep moving forward, don't listen to the naysayers, persevere, be persistent.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.