“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”

“Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others...”

“Even in my own time and in my own life, I have witnessed a revolution.”

“Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.”

“It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the ...”

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not me...”

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”

“Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.”

“Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.”

“Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.”