"Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else."

"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."

"The light that puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

"Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."

"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion."

"Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?"

"As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom."

"Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself."

"I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them."

"The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961)."