It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.