The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."