Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.