It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.

The greatest victory is defeat.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.