"All the world is queer save thee and me. And even thou art a little queer."

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

"Every child deserves a home and love. Period."

"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."

"You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust."

"To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in."

"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."

"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."

"But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honour'd in breach than the observance."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."