When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.