"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind."

"To think is to act."

"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny."

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."

"In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals."

"Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity."

"You can't fight in here....this is the War Room!!"

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."