"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."

"Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect."

"I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare."

"If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."

"It's a weird year."

"When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated. When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed."

"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."

"If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family."

"Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another."

"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."

"What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason."

"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."