Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.