"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness."

"Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

"I call that a scumhead."

"Nothing can be created from nothing."

"The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have."

"To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."

"It is within the families themselves where peace can begin."