The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Speaking from the heart is simple. Listening wholeheartedly, however, is much, much more difficult and most rare.

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out.

You don't know what's on the inside until you put a demand on your potential.

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.