We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

What is possible is our highest duty.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Cuando hay hambre, no hay pan duro!

When I step out of the role you have written for me you make me feel like a plagiarist. from the play Jake's Women.

Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

The "private sector" of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and...the "public sector" is, in fact, the coercive sector.

Achilles absent, was Achilles still.

A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

He ran over me like a speed bump.

Dear to us are those who love us. . . but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit . . .

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tongue like absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.