"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government..."

"'Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.'"

"A soft answer turneth away wrath."

"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know."

"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"

"I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent."

"Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are."

"I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it."

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."

"Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself."

"The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried."

"Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."