"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal."

"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck."

"Not until just before dawn do people sleep best; not until people get old do they become wise."

"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."

"We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."