"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

"The best artworks ask questions rather than provide answers."

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives, and mothers; that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

We are all prisoners of our own stories, but we can choose how to tell them.