The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.