What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

One on God's side is a majority.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Responsibility educates.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.