"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 only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"

"If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land."

"To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly."

"There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go."

"For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?"

"What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him."