"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

"This isn't the sort of thing you can leave to chance. You never know when you might find yourself in some sort of cake emergency."

"It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."

"A hair divides what is false and true."

"I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody."

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

"The future belongs to those who dare."

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

"I have nothing to declare but my genius."

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."