"It is not in the still calm of the laboratory that men and women come to know truth. It is in the noise and tumult of the world that we learn what is true."

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

"We should not be afraid to be different, to think different, to act different. We should be afraid to be the same."

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the rights of the individual, and a citizenry wise enough to understand that there is no safety in numbers, in weal…"