Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.