"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."

"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word."

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain."

"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."

"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."