"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."

"With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."

"He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze."

"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there."

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."