In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

Take a long breath, hold your breath for some time before releasing it each time,…that will enlarge your lungs a bit. A very useful tip for Corona times.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. 

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. 

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.