There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

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.

Why don’t you dare the impossible?

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.

If you play to win as I do, the game never ends.