those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!