Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.