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I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

All that counts in life is intention.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.