Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Man is a social animal.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

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.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment