No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it.